Sedro-Wooley-KlausReunion; heading East to CDA 8/12 - 8/13

From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com 

Tim and Linda Bunyan

Sedro-Wooley, the town where I was born, remains the ideal location for the Klaus Family Reunion.

We stopped at this corner for lemonade.  Three boys on the corner marketing with their sign and ice chest.  Warmed my heart to see these young men joyful and doing what I recall as a young girl about the same age...…. nearly 50 years ago!









 We are heading east from here so the local waste treatment plant has a dump station we are able to drive-thru to begin our eastward journey.

Here is some of the family at the Klaus Reunion.  Christine is speaking.

Tim with Keith Klaus and Barb Klaus with the Klaus Family Reunion T-shirt....She's got the spunk!

Here is the group as much as would fit in the picture.  Many children are out running around and playing in the park.

Mike and Christine are the lead in organizing the Klaus Family reunion and the park setting is perfect and all bring a side dish and chicken is the main course.  The children abound and there are happy sounds to this group.  Barb and Bev and Keith remain the mainstays and Terry is here for the day with Angela by her side.  We say goodbye to family and so glad we planned our 2019 Travel Tour to be at the Family Reunion in WA in August.  So fine to see everyone together!

We are headed east to CDA and onward to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.  This 2019 Travel Tour began in May at Connelly's, in Nevada.  We traveled up the Oregon coast and around the WA Olympic Peninsula to Mike and Paul and the Alwood Family Reunion in Bow, and the Klaus Family Reunion in Sedro Wooley.  Now, August, heading to Idaho to take in some more National Parks!
North Cascade Scenic Byway
We choose the long road heading east and glad we did for the day drive is delightful as wandering through a forest and along lakes and rivers.

 Lunch Stop in the parking lot; behind this trailer, an attractive dumpster.

.We are driving Highway 20 along the beautiful Baker River, passing by the Nehalem North Cascades National Park in alpine and heather scenery.  The Cascade Loop through Winthrop is some backcountry on the 'east' side of WA.  passing by Ross Lake, Blue Lake, and Cutthroat Lake over the WA Pass, leaving the North Cascade Scenic Byway to find Methow River and Old Vardan Creek to reach Alta Lake at Highway 17 to the hills of Apples.  

Huge warehouses and stacks of crates will with apples ready for distribution.  Apple orchards are fed by the water diverted by the Grand Coulee Dam!

 

  

 We turn to WA 174 East passed Chief Joseph Dam to the Grand Coulee RV Park just near the Grand Coulee Dam in Coulee City, 
Hwy 2.
The Grand, on the Columbia River (1,243 miles long), is the largest power station in the United States at over 6,000 MW capacity.

 Here we are at the Grand Coulee RV Park

 The Grand Coulee Dam premiers a light show at night!

 It is spectacular!

We toured the generating plant.

 

 The Generators

It is time to continue from the East side of the WA cascades to CDA; we've friends awaiting our arrival.  Rob and Sandy Connelly have planned to meet up with us at Jim and Linda Drinkard's home on the golf course in CDA.

 Fueling UP from WA to Couer d' Alene, Idaho!